Word: agent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confidant and adviser of William of Orange, the tool of Barley, Queen Anne's prime minister, and the publicity agent of George I, DeFoe occupies a position in English history and politics, less important, but no less interesting than his place in letters...
When last year the Democratic National Committee dipped into the corps of Washington correspondents, of all journalists the most politically wise, and plucked out Charles Michelson of the New York World as its press agent, the Republican National Committee felt badly scooped. This feeling was increased when, during the summer, Press Agent Michelson earned more than his pay by masterfully effective broadsides against the Republican Tariff Bill...
...press agentry: Lionel Charles Probert, onetime locomotive fireman left the head of the bureau to become publicity man for the Brothers Van Sweringen and Vice President of their Erie R. R. While covering the Senate oil scandals investigation, Bond E. Geddes dropped his pencil abruptly to become the press agent for Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. E. Ross Bartley covered Charles Gates Dawes' Vice Presidential campaign in 1924 so effectively that the Vice President made him his Chief Secretary at the capitol...
Almost everyone, at one time or another, has bought a theatre seat, has been told by the agent that it was in the centre and found it actually far on one side. Almost everyone has been the victim of Dishonesty even more piddling?has bought a ticket which he fancied good because it was marked Row F, then discovered there were numerous unlettered rows in front of row A. So prevalent is this species of informatory weaseling that many philosophic souls wonder whether any commercialist can be utterly frank about the nature of the things he wishes to sell. Recently...
...regard to the disturbance created by a number of Harvard students last Wednesday night the claim agent of the Boston Elevated Railway has stated the company's attitude toward the situation...